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About a year ago, the European Space Agency (ESA) released the Gaia galactic census that detailed the position, distance and motion data of almost 1.7 billion stars in the Milky Way, and scientists have been poring over it ever since. Now, a team of researchers has found evidence of a

Astronomers have spotted a mysterious "ghost" galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. Huge but extremely faint, the oddball galaxy has been named Antlia 2, and it might just be weird enough to force us to rethink what we know about galactic physics and dark matter.Ant 2, as it's also known, is

Astronomers have captured a striking view of the galaxy NGC 3981, which is revealed shining with the light of energetic stars, surrounded by its ghostly spiral arms. Located roughly 65 million light-years from Earth, it appears to have been disrupted by a close call with a neighboring galaxy.NGC 3981 shares

There are many strange galaxies out there in space, but about 300 million light-years away is one that's really something. It's called AM 0644-741, or the Lindsay-Shapley Ring, and it's what is known as a ring galaxy - shaped like a ring, with a darker region in the centre.Now astronomers

A “monster galaxy” that formed just one billion years after the Big Bang is spewing out stars at such a fast rate it will be consumed within the next 100 million years, scientists have discovered. By mapping the COSMOS-AzTEC-1 galaxy, which is located 12.4 billion light years away, researchers were able

The Milky Way is a zombie. No, not really, it doesn't go around eating other galaxies' brains. But it did "die" once, before flaring back to life. That's what a Japanese scientist has ascertained after peering into the chemical compositions of our galaxy's stars. In a large section of the

For the first time ever, an international team of astronomers has discovered a galaxy lacking dark matter, the hypothetical and mysterious substance that's expected to outweigh regular matter – which makes us and everything we can see in the universe – five to one. The discovery, published in Nature, is

German astronomers have conducted a study of the central bulge of the Andromeda galaxy and analyzed its stellar populations. The research could improve our understanding of the bulge's structure and formation history. Results of the study are presented in a paper published July 24 on the arXiv pre-print repository.Located some